Editing Council of Wyrms (section)

==The Io's Blood Isles==
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The adventure takes place on a chain of islands created by [[Io]] to stop the various types of dragons from killing each other. To accomplish this he forcibly separates the dragon types from each other. Eventually the different clans decided to make an island into a neutral seat. This island is populated by the Platform of Wyrms, which has representatives of every clan with a dragon of at least 1000 years, and the Platform of Dominates where dragons of any age can debate (and just debate).

One thing that should be mentioned is the ''scale'' of the islands. Going by the map, the chain is over 2500 miles top to bottom. That's larger than the continental US flipped on its side. Accordingly, the top of the map holds the world's north pole and the bottom holds a tropical ring of fire. The only outside locations in the setting are said north pole and tropical fire land, home to the [[Frost Giant|Frost]] and [[Fire Giant]]s respectively, and "far off" continents inhabited by humans, including dragon slayers.

===Lesser Races===
Whilst the dragons and their "Vassals" get all the attention, there's actually quite a lot of intelligent races running around the Io's Blood Isles according to the random encounters charts, so this'd actually be a perfect place to run "weird race" centric campaigns. These races include:
* [[Frost Giant]]s
* [[Fire Giant]]s
* [[Ogre]]s
* [[Troll]]s
* [[Hobgoblin]]s
* [[Kobold]]s
* [[Bugbear]]s
* [[Ettin]]s
* [[Yeti]]s
* [[Quaggoth]]s (an arctic-adapted surface-dwelling race which hunts dragons with the aid of pots of brown mold as throwing weapons)
* [[Hag]]s
* [[Duergar]]
* [[Wemic]]s (at war with the hobgoblins who share their terrain)
* [[Firbolg]]s (Neutral Evil in the isles, strangely)
* [[Centaur]]s
* [[Satyr]]s
* [[Dryad]]s
* [[Nymph]]s
* [[Gnoll]]s
* [[Goblin]]s (ride giant spiders)
* [[Cyclops]]es
* [[Hill Giant]]s
* [[Aquatic Elf|Aquatic Elves]]
* [[Sirine]]s
* [[Koalinth]]s
* [[Drow]]
* [[Manscorpion]]s (bitter enemies of the thri-kreen)
* [[Thri-Kreen]] (bitter enemies of the manscorpions)
* [[Yuan-ti]] (at war with the other swamp-dwellers)
* [[Lizardfolk]] ("Advanced" cultural variant, working at controlling reptilian [[Gargantua]])
* [[Bullywug]]s (psionic, True Neutral, with a [[druid]]ic cultrual belief, control and ride giant swamp worms, breed carnivorous plant guardians)
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Spriggan]]s (dwell in the underdark, all but indistinguishable from svirfneblin)
* [[Kuo-Toa]] (dwell in surface waters, unaffected by sunlight)

Additionally, certain monsters take on more unusual forms here. [[Cave Fisher]]s are fully sapient, rather than mere predatory animals, and capture humanoids from the surface to sell as slaves to the [[Aboleth]]s in the [[Underdark]]. [[Manticore]]s are characterized as "wise, but stingy and hard bargainers". A species of fire-breathing canine, described as "[[Hell Hound]]s, but True Neutral" are common in the deserts and trained by local hobgoblins.